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Looking for a way to transfer files from BeOS to Windows.

Mike DangerMike Danger "Diane..."a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
edited September 2011 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
I have a BeOS box that is directly connected to a Windows box (as in, there's a CatV cable running from one to the other). How can I move files from Windows to BeOS? I turned on the BeOS FTP server, but it doesn't seem to be working.

I'm having a hard time finding good documentation for BeOS stuff online, so anything would be a great help.

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  • Mike DangerMike Danger "Diane..." a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
    Update: I've got the FTP stuff working, but my new problem is that MP3s transferred into the system are seen as "Generic file"s and not proper MP3s

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  • mspencermspencer PAX [ENFORCER] Council Bluffs, IARegistered User regular
    Those mp3 files may just need extensions, or they may have been transferred in text (6-bit or 7-bit) mode. Be sure the transfers were done in binary mode (type I, for binary Image) if renaming the files from "something" to "something.mp3" didn't help.

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    If all they need is the extension changed you can do it quick with the command line. Assuming they all have no extension currently, put them all in one folder by themselves and then 
    c:\thefolder\theyarein>ren * *.mp3

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  • Mike DangerMike Danger "Diane..." a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
    They all have the appropriate extension - I tried discarding and then readding the extension as well. I'll poke around in the Filezilla settings and see if there's anything about that transfer mode.

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  • quietjayquietjay Indianapolis, INRegistered User regular
    I found an article discussing file types on BeOS: http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/17-filetyping/

    Do you have the audio/x-mpeg mime type associated with .mp3 ?

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  • grouch993grouch993 Both a man and a numberRegistered User regular
    Is type 'bin' being set in your ftp session?

    Are you using command line ftp or some other utility?

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